Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the durables category , the Electricity Association 's Creature Comforts campaign carried off what must surely be its last award . |
| 2 | A desperate prisoner , knowing perfectly well what is expected of him may well offer to a chaplain or prison visitor any amount of repentance ; he might even undertake a religious conversion . |
| 3 | The probability that this area will be able to hold all the records added to it will thus be : |
| 4 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 5 | The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes . |
| 6 | The firmness of the houses has not changed ; a few may have become offices , or been sub-divided into what must surely be splendid apartments , but the depth of the society persists . |
| 7 | Market purchases by the bidder and persons connected with it may therefore not be advisable and the 75 per cent threshold becomes more difficult to achieve if the promoters already hold significant numbers of shares . |
| 8 | Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire . |
| 9 | When a research project is written up it will probably not be any grandiose offering ( indeed it will probably be all the better for not being grandiose ) , but if the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy and the statement of results does not go beyond the limits justified by the data then a useful craftsmanlike job of work will have been accomplished . |
| 10 | Unkind souls are suggesting that once the money for the LHC has been sewn up it can only be a matter of time before CERN gets out the begging bowl for the VEC — Very Expensive Collider . |
| 11 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 12 | Once the European Economic Area arrangements are implemented in any EFTA state , that state is treated as a Member State of the EC for this purpose and banks incorporated in it will also be able to use the passport and will thus also be relevant European institutions . |
| 13 | ‘ The modifications that are being made to it will probably increase that range by anything up to thirty miles . ’ |
| 14 | The absurdity of the Italian ‘ recruitment ’ system is revealed by what could safely be described as the ‘ Aquila paradox ’ — the man sidelined by Martin was none other than the successful Italian fullback Luigi Troiani . |
| 15 | Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies . |
| 16 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 17 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 18 | But what can be used by us can just as easily be used by our enemies , and I 'm loath to see this one fall back into their hands . |
| 19 | So , as the song has it , we do what comes naturally , and we ‘ naturalize ’ those whom we adopt fully into our own community — those who are born into it need only be ‘ socialized ’ . |
| 20 | By lifting these and other examples out of the compelling context of the stories in which they are embedded and analysing just how they are weaved in you will probably be able to see how , in the compelling story you are contemplating , a similar device can be used . |
| 21 | Just as the dominions of Canada , Australia and New Zealand were able to conduct their own economic policies while belonging to the sterling area — having their own Chancellors of the Exchequer operating their own fiscal policies , and raising their own tax revenues — so Britain will retain a wide freedom of action , while enjoying the benefit of belonging to a currency and economy underpinned by what will undoubtedly be the strongest currency in the world . |
| 22 | It is vital to any understanding of the present state , both of public debate and personal morality , to realise the part played by what might generally be called the ‘ humanist lobby ’ . |
| 23 | For example , a DC which has been entered but not assessed by everybody can easily be removed by persuading someone to reject it , or by aborting it immediately after it has been agreed . |
| 24 | Perceptions are constructed or formed from whatever would normally otherwise have been inhibited ( such as the low-level random discharges from the retina ) . |
| 25 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 26 | Reckoned up over the eleven months covered , this represented a take-home figure of £64 : 3s. : 5d. , but in what proportion this was distributed amongst them can only be guessed at . |
| 27 | Anything less or anything other than this is not only untrue but alien and unhelpful , and if it is not dealt with it will inevitably create doubts . |
| 28 | Secondly , an individual post-hole can not easily be assigned to any particular building phase , since any datable artefact found within it could either pre-date or post-date the structure for which the hole was dug . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
| 30 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |